The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1887-03-02

furniture factory. - will Sault of Lynn,
Mass, visited his parents here last week.
80 Miss Anna Dubois gave birthday
party recently. - Mrs. Faneuf of st.
Adams visited Henry Tewksbury the other
day. - Eulie Savage of Waitsfeld is
visiting her friend, Bertha Wires. -
Charles Dutton and bride visited in town
last week. - Two sons of Joseph Sault,
aged eight and eleven, with the aid of a
horse thirty years old, recently sawed
three cords of sixteen-inch wood in six
hours. - Hon. James Hutchinson was
elected vice-president of the Orange county
temperance society at the last session.
- The graduating class of the graded
school will number seven, as follows: Abbie
Hutchinson, Bert Allis, G. G.. Dubois, f.
p. Fish, Frank Hastings f.. W. Tewksbury
and r. X. Wires. - Sunday we were
treated to a western blizzard. - Some
complaint is made that the snow-plow does
not go in all parts of the corporation when
the most needed. - Mrs. George Pearl
and family returned from Lebanon, n. H.,
last week. - Miss Rose Smith died in
New York last Thursday. Funeral at her
home in North Randolph Monday. -
The Baptists have some new Sunday-sChool
books and have just published a new Sun
day-school library catalogue.
Strafford.
THE length of the winter term OF school in
district No. IL was sixty days. Willard II.
Robinson, Philip S. Robinson and Ellen NJ.
Morey received no marks on the register.
Leland ID. Ordway was present fifty-nine
days and Roy f. Freeman fifty-eight days.
Tunbridge.
A. NJ. DEAN and Byron Whitney started
to drive to Barre Thursday but found the
roads badly drifted and returned. -
The roads leading to STAFFORD were all
blocked Friday. 80 Martin Noyes pro-
poses to engage in the manufacture of car
riages at the North village. - Grin Gay
of Gay Brothers went to Cavendish Tues
day of last week to superintend the putting
in of some machinery at the factory in that
place. - There is to be an instrumental
and vocal concert given at the Congrega-
tional church next Wednesday evening.
The proceeds go to Rev. Mr.. Hubbard.
60 Mr.. Fred p. Starr started for his
home in Tracy, Mimi, last Saturday even
ing his duties as an agent of the Chicago
Northwestern railway demanding his pres
ence there. - Nearly $7S was realized
from the Grand Army fair last Wednesday
evening. - Cora Howe is very low.
- The Germans in the Gallup building
have good trade - The highways are
badly drifted and every man who could get
here Saturday called upon the selectmen to
break out the roads. - Annette Rowel
is better - Richard Smith of Vershire
attended the Grand Army fair last Wednes-
day. - The latest news from Meriden
was to the effect that Eddie Cushman was
a little better.
Williamstown.
THE Ladies' Literary Club will hold its
next meeting with Miss Matte Watson, at
the house of X. l.. Watson, on Wednesday
afternoon of next week. The subject of the
meeting will be Washington's First Adj
ministration." The club proposes the study
of all the administrations in order. AS it is
a little world of information much to be
priced. - The Congregational society is
again gladdened by a most helpful lift from
Conductor Frank w. Flint in raising the
salary of Rev r. d. Miller for the coming
year. - The residents of the Orville
II. Briggs district are worthy of praise for
the success they are making of their read
ings at their school-house. Nearly fifty per-
sons were in attendance at a late reading.
- Mr.. and Mrs. j. X. Lynde will give
a sociable at the town hall on Wednesday
evening of next week, March 9, for the
benefit of the Congregational society.
Everybody is cordially invited. A small adj
mission fee will be charged. A programme
including readings from Whittier land per-
haps other poets), with other entertainment,
will doubtless prove very attractive. -
Ex-townsman DIR. e. G. Lewis of Rut-
land was nominated by the Rutland
county temperance association as candidate
for county commissioner. - Governor
Smith writes Judge John Lynde that there
will probably be a meeting this week of the
railway directors, who are TO decide the I'M
settled questions pertaining to the extension
of the road from Barre to this place. 1t has
been feared the late accidents on the Cen
trail Vermont might postpone the building
of the road for time, the main point now,
we believe, to be settled. - Some one
travelling in the South says self-made man
there told him the weather Tor climate) was
monotonous and unanimous. Let that de-
scribe the weather here for the last few
days. 1t has been monotonous in showing
and blowing and apparently unanimous
with one mind to continue in the same way
for no one knows how long. But there is
good in it all of course. - Edwin Smith
shipped six carloads of potatoes from Barre
in the month of February, for which he
paid forty cents a bushel. - r. n. Lewis
who has been ON II. ID. Abbott's farm the
year past, has rented for five years the Elias
Heath farm in South Woodbury.. He came
here a stranger year before last, having at
first lived on the Alvin Flint place. We
Judge he will carry good name to his new
home. - James Sprout, son of Mrs
Norman Davenport, has been having pneu-
monia. - Mr.. A. j. Dufur, formerly OF
this place, writes from his home, Dufur
Oregon, of only five inches of snow and
mercury at thirty degrees above zero He
and his family are keeping six thousand
of hay. A son, who is a lawyer in Oregon
may likely visit old home friends here
abouts the coming season. - Eliot b
Watson is attending medical lectures in
Burlington. - Miss Eunice Burnham
an aged sister of the late David Burnham
who has been residing with niece in Ran
dolph, died last week. Her body was
brought here for burial. - Charles w
Lyon, son-in-law of Oliver Davenport
buried an infant daughter last week, He
purposes to move soon on to the farm pur
chased of Ed. ID. Fuller in Chelsea. -
Mr.. and Mrs. b. f, Sibley, after taking in
the carnival at Burlington visited friends
in Winoosk and returned last week. -
Deacon Burnham Seaver and wife of Bur
lington are visiting friends hereabouts
They will likely remain through this month
- A child was born to Mr.. and Mrs
Luman j. Hersey last week. - Elk
townsman Birney Seaver, now of the Lyman
Emery place in Washington, has so baC
hand from erysipelas that it is feared h'
must lose a portion of it.